ABSTRACT
The chapter is an account of what it is like to be a journalist in the Mexico-U.S. border area in Baja California, Mexico, through a series of conversations with one of the most prominent reporters and photojournalists in the Mexican Northwest: Sergio Haro Cordero (1957–2017). By narrating his career in journalism, Sergio Haro shows the day-to-day life of a high-risk profession in Mexico and gives insights into the challenges faced when doing what few still do: investigative journalism. As a mentor, Haro shaped generations of young new reporters who interned at the newsweekly Zeta, where he was the news editor. Ranging from politics to social movements and from migration to drug trafficking, his work reflects deep personal ethics and social commitment, as well as the conflictive nature of the region: a permeable border where more than 24 million people cross legally every year, and thousands come from different countries trying to cross illegally into the United States.
